Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"(SonC) Sonny Carter" wrote: > > David, one thing you can do is make yourself a couple of cardboard L's, and > take some workprints, and use the L's to see various ways to crop a print. > Before Photoshop, I would take a white wax pencil, and draw my final crop. > Finally, I got brave, and when I wanted to crop a print, I'd just take > scissors to it. > I have a Quickey macro I've put with my Photoshop so i can be cropping in the golden rectangle format. Which is roughly what happens when you cut an 8x10 sheet of paper in half: a 5x8. More panoramic then the 24/36, 2/3 shape i also love so much. It's 1/1.6180339887498948482. The macro program holds about all those numbers! The Golden Rectangle is a very famous shape that hack artists like Leonardo De Vinci have been into for years. Heck if Leo likes it why not give it a try? But first we had to hire Harrison Ford to go down in there among the snakes and get it back again. Then a bunch of mystical mumbo Jumbo..... And then all the heads exploded on and all the people who had pirated versions of Photoshop! Its not nice to fool with Mother Nature…! (back lightning back!) So lots of my images in digital format is this more skinny and somehow strangely satisfying shape. No so much my darkroom stuff, not that it would be so hard to draw one on a piece of paper and set it in a four bladed easel to used as an easy obvious guide to positioning them. The ratio I thought Bob was using was a favorite of mine; 1 over 2. Linhof 6x12 format or Hasselblad mask 60x30 format which I use. But it was skinnier than that. But nowhere near as ridiculous as the 6x17 ratio so popular now which in my mine is not a rectangle at all but a line. You look at it left to right like reading. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html